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Tennis: Perham defeats NY Mills to set up playoff play-in game Friday

The Eagles and Yellowjackets girls tennis teams duked it out Thursday to gain home court for a rematch in the pigtail game of the Section 8A playoffs. The play-in matches will be in Perham Friday, Oct. 7 at 4 p.m. after the Yellowjackets pulled out a 4-3 victory.

NY Mills took three of four singles matches: Jenna Esala and Krista Guldseth, taking out their opponents. Esala defeated Suzanne Coleman 6-2, 6-7 (6-8) and 10-4 in a super tiebreaker. Guldseth won a seesaw affair with Ashley Silbernagel. Guldseth took the first set 6-3, Silbernagel dominated the second set 6-1 before Guldseth ran the table in the deciding third set winning at love.

Victoria Selander nabbed the Eagles third point with a straight set, 7-5, 6-2 victory over Chelsea Honer.

From there, the Yellowjackets took four singles, Maggie Rennicke over Abby Salo, 4-6, 6-4 and 6-1, while sweeping the three doubles matches to seal the 4-3 team victory.

Hannah Brenk and Paige Biegler defeated Kristin Kane and Emily Blomberg four and three at one-doubles. MaKayla Kroenke and Katie Howey were victorious at two-doubles over Megan Dow and Jordin Roberts 6-2, 1-6, 6-4.

Josey Beachy and Betsy Pearson held on to a service break in the third set in their win over Guro Remaas and Kari Salo, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.